ICINESS IN OCEANSIDE IS ABOUT POLITICS, NOT WEATHER

So the argument that Wood isn’t the ideal SANDAG representative for traffic-congested Oceanside is obvious.

His antagonism to an exchange at Rancho del Oro and state Route 78, the Melrose extension and an apparent preference for more mass transit (you know, the system by which our betters push the bulk of transportation money to services used by no more than 5 percent of the population — in part because it doesn’t go where most people need to go and takes twice as long to boot) are all good reasons to keep the mayor off the board.

But just as it was predictable that touching the local Third Rail (rent-controlled mobile home spaces) would set off the activists and lead to a thumping or two at the ballot box (the initiative crashed and burned in June, and Wood subsequently hammered Kern in the November mayoral race), this is likely to do the same.

They have unnecessarily waded into this fight, mostly for political payback. After all, there is no money for the Rancho del Oro exchange (and Caltrans doesn’t like it anyway), and little for the Melrose extension project.

Kent Davy is the former editor of the North County Times. Contact him at kent2davy@gmail.com